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"And yet it moves" Galileo Galilei https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_yet_it_moves?wprov=sfla1 . I agree that in many axpects the situation is exagerated, in primis by general panic. But If the Covid is not much worse than flu why in Italy we have military trucks convoy that transport death to southern regions because the wait line for crematory in North is becomed too long?

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In normal times Italy has a death rate of 10 deaths/1000 people. Which translates to ~1500 daily for a population of 60 millions. What were they doing previously with the dead?

They buried or cremated them. Unsurprisingly, the system can't handle a sudden one-of-a-kind spike.

Those people haven't stopped dying. As a comparison, 700 people have been dying every day for covid-19 in Italy. Also deaths are not (yet) evenly distributed but greatly concentated in the north.

You are building the world around your arguments. You have no proof but still talk, talk, talk.

You didn’t refute him/her.

What does that even mean? The world is what it is. Italy is seeing huge increases in background death rates at the moment, owing solely to COVID-19 (while at the same time seeing diminished deaths from things like traffic accidents, though not remotely enough to make up for all the extra COVID-19 deaths).

What is your argument exactly? It's a fact that Italy is running at a higher overall mortality rate owing to COVID-19.

> Those people haven't stopped dying

Right... they're dying from covid-19.

Covid-19 deaths are not spread out over the country. There are places where people is dying at four times the usual rate.

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